Uh, my company can make those aircarft too, so give me the money, er, contract!!

Has anyone even considered that one of the reasons purchasing these aircarft is that at a certain point in the very near future, the banana republic to the south will no longer be producing these fine aircraft?

Thank you Commandante Obamammy!

Well if Byers says so, it must be true.

'cause he's a Progressive and they are soooooooooooooooooooooooooo smart.

Right ?

Byers makes pond scum seem intelligent in comparison.

Pity the poor Afghan Soldier who has to use our leftover Bombardier produced Iltis junk, after we leave..

Actually, come to think of it, didn't their govt refuse the gift?

I would!

So the fact that we helped develop the J-35 JSF means nothing. JSF actually stands for JOINT strike fighter. Commonality with other NATO allies was the intent. I guess we should just go our own way again huh? Increased range and speed with one less engine. And increased stealth capability. Naw lets not bother. Too militaristic for all the dippers and their useful idiot bretheren.

The bed wetters have a limited capacity to absorb, digest and analyze concepts unless it means a publicly funded lifestyle for them. They're talking about search and rescue aircraft while the CF-35 is a strike force aircraft that would replace the CF-18's - the one that intercepted the Russian bombers a few days ago. The Dash 8 is a slow moving STOL (short takeoff and landing) aircraft that travels about 400km an hour.

Again, I advise you to show patience and understanding when dealing with the bed wetters. They were suckled on the left teat. which we all know has a proven failure rate that exceeds any other one available. This accounts for their limited capacity and need for mooching.

The government bailout was bad enough, but the final straw was the CAW's public announcement about 2 months ago in support of retaining the long-gun registry.

I resolved at that time to never buy another car or truck in my life that was made by CAW hands.

If it's any consolation to Canada, we in the US probably won't have any F-35s either, not after The One is done with us. Liberals are deliberately ignorant of the by-now proven maxim that you equip and train your military for the next war, not the last one. They point out that the F-15, F-16, and F-18 (all of which they also resisted) are more than a match for almost anything out there. The trouble, of course, is that "almost" is what will catch you trying to play catchup like Britain and France in 1939-40. And they are also ignorant of the development cycle a modern combat aircraft goes through. We're talking decades of R&D. This isn't like WWII where a promising design could go from drawing board to front line squadrons in 3-4 years.

The Iltis buy was of zero interest to the MSM for some reason. The fact that they could have been bought from the Swiss factory at half the cost involved in sticking them together in a Quebec kit assembly operation must have bored them to tears.
A while later snippets of information indicated that a few overseas buyers of the USA Humvee had changed their minds and several hundred production slots were available on short notice for a much safer and more capable vehicle...yaaawwwnnn.

Military contracts and patronage are such a vile mixture by themselves but when sanctimonious leftists demand a slice it is surreal.

The Brits were fortunate....

They had the Hurricanes and Spitfires, because a very affluent, eccentric, nice little old lady sponsored a competition....specifying a closed cockpit, monoplane fighter with retractable landing gear, a speed of 300mph and an armament of 8 machineguns.....my kinda gal.
Earlier a rich dude influenced Bristols to produce a monoplane, fast, light bomber. Bristols feared offending the Air Ministry....who immediately demanded the prototype for testing. What became the Blenheim outstripped the new fighters of the RAF by 50 mph. Although obsolete by 1939 it non-the-less inspired that "little old lady"..... and De Havillands to build the ubiquitous Mosquito......which was finally replaced postwar by the English Electric Canberra...yet another private venture.
The formidable North American Mustang was the result of a British Purchasing Commision order---and a few British engineers. The USAAF was not interested but grudgingly took a few examples for testing....which they dubed with the lame name "Apache".....the Brits designated them "Mustangs" which stuck.
Americans numbered their Tanks but the Brits used names....hence M3 "Lees and Grants", M4 "Shermans", the Brits declined the M28 but named it "Pershing" anyway. ROTFALMAO.